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Final Weeks - EEK!!!
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Well, there does seem to be a bit of a difference I've noticed between UK and US. Maybe they don't do HSGs in the UK or it's called something else?? But anyway, all an HSG is a procedure where they shoot dye up through your tubes and take xrays to see if the dye flows all the way through.
A Lap is a minimally-invasive surgery where they cut two to three small incisions and look around the outside of the uterus and tubes.
With the lap, I also had a Hysteroscopy to find the reason for the blockage. With the hysteroscopy, he went in with a wire type thing and passed it through the tube to see if it was blocked or to unblock it.
An HSG is an In and Out kind of procedure. A lap requires general anesthesia and a couple days worth of recovery.
Perhaps in the UK they do both at the same time. Some people have pain with the HSG so they might prefer to do it while you're under the anesthetic. I had really no pain at all with my HSG, so
Hope that was at least a tiny bit helpful!
In Canada they only do lap & dye if they feel there is a reason to go in under general to investigate / remove a problem. I had an HSG done in October 2010 and it showed only one of my tubes as being open. Then 2 weeks ago I had a lap & dye done to see if there were any other structural things wrong - endometriosis, fibroids, scar tissue etc. that was preventing us from getting pregnant. While they were looking at the outer area of the structures they redid the dye test and it showed that both of my tubes are wide open.
At a minimum before starting with IUI you should have an HSG / dye test done as it is waste of money and your time if your tubes are blocked. Yes it was uncomfortable and unpleasant but to me doing drugs and IUI would have been a bigger waste and more upsetting if I found out months down the road that my tubes were blocked.
It is definitely worth asking your doctor to check your tubes!
we had a long appointment with him and asked him tons of questions and decided that this will be best for us. I was surprised to be starting so soon b/c I thought he was giong away on vacation like the nurse said but then he said that we could start tomorrow if we wanted to, so we did 
He sent me for tons of blood work (like 14 vials) and I started my bcp last saturday. I am having my orientation and sonohysterogram on the 17th of August. He is putting me on the antagonist protocol so no lupron for me just the bcp and then straight to stimming! SO EXCITED!!!
I actually have a friend coming over in about 30 min to watch the Men Tell All that I taped from last night and we'll go straight into the Finale after and catch up with it as the number of commercials is ridiculous.
Hope to see some bfps here soon!!
